KLAIPĖDA. A CITY THAT DELIVERS.

Klaipėda is a city that finds efficient solutions for business and national problems.

We are very serious.

See what Klaipėda has already delivered!

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TERMINAL

For more than 20 years, Lithuania has had a single supplier of natural gas and paid the highest gas price in Europe. After certain political decisions were taken, the only liquefied natural gas terminal project in the Baltic States was commissioned in Klaipėda within only two years in cooperation with South Korean and Norwegian partners. The LNG project has resulted in a drop in gas price of approximately 30%, created a gas market and turned Lithuania into a gas exporter.

~30%

DROP IN GAS PRICE

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NORDBALT UNDERWATER POWER LINK

Following the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in 2009, electricity prices in Lithuania were the highest in the region, and the country turned from an electricity exporter into an energy island and importer. The NordBalt underwater power link with Sweden, which was set up in Klaipėda in 2014 and put in operation in 2015, has reduced electricity prices by 20%, connected Lithuania to the Scandinavian power market and opened up opportunities to purchase wind and hydro energy from Scandinavia thus fully embracing the infrastructure of the Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant.

topazworld.com photo

~20%

HAS REDUCED ELECTRICITY PRICES

FORTUM COMBINED HEAT AND POWER PLANT

In 2011, when heating prices in Lithuania increased dramatically, the construction of the first combined heat and power plant combusting household and non-dangerous waste in the country was started in Klaipėda. Finland’s Fortum invested over EUR 125 million in the project. The plant was launched two years later and now produces 40% of the heat consumed by the city. The price of heat currently paid in Klaipėda is the lowest among the other main Lithuanian cities.

Official Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania photo by Dž. G. Barysaitė

THE PRICE OF HEAT IS THE LOWEST

KLAIPĖDA SEAPORT

Seaport is a generic term; however, in Lithuania it is often capitalised as it is the second name of Klaipėda. Klaipėda Seaport has always been Lithuania’s window to the world, and nowadays, with 58,000 direct and indirect jobs, and 6% of the national GDP, the port is the soul of the entire seacoast region, and one of the main economic engines of the country.

Continually upgraded, an ice-free port of Klaipeda is a source of inspiration to meet and cope with new challenges!

Arvydas Vaitkus, Director General of Klaipeda State Seaport

‘In terms of the cargo turnover since 2016, Klaipėda Seaport has been an absolute leader among the ports of the Baltic States. To remain competitive we need to plan today for a decade ahead. A growing and developing seaport means wider opportunities for the city, business, science, and investment, which also means new jobs, and additional revenue for the city and the State budgets’.

The northernmost ice-free seaport

7/24

Deep-water port:

depth at the entrance – 15.5 m

depth of the navigation channel – 14.5 m

The largest annual cargo handling increase in the region within 17 years

6,4 %

A GATE TO THE WORLD FOR ALL BUSINESSES:

12%

Ro-Ro

7% grains

14% other products

14% containers

33

specialised terminals at the port

31% fertilizers

22% oil products

Sea Railway Road

Annual capacity million

65 tonnes

Annual turnover million

41 tonnes

Multipurpose:

33 specialised modern terminals diversified according to different cargo types

Klaipėda port is the country’s most important and the largest industrial and transportation center, the hub of maritime, land and air transportation. The port provides a full-range of port and maritime business services: stevedoring, warehousing, shipbuilding and repair, logistics. Klaipėda – a modern intermodal port, your transportation and logistics lighthouse!

KLAIPĖDA FEZ

In 2002, when Lithuania was still under the effect of the Russian economic crisis, Klaipėda decided to establish the first free economic zone in the country. The FEZ currently hosts 27 companies, which have invested about EUR 600 million (85% of which is foreign direct investment), generate EUR 1 billion in revenue, employ 1 in every 20 Klaipėda residents and produce 2.5% of Lithuania’s total exports and 3% of the country’s GDP.

~600

MILLION EUR INVESTMENT

1

BILLION EUR IN REVENUE

2,5% 3% EXPORTS GDP

FIRST EVER AND THE ONLY AWARD FOR

QUICK LAUNCH

QUICK LAUNCH IN KLAIPEDA - GLOBALLY RECOGNISED COMPETETIVE ADVANTAGE

Furthermore, they have also delivered in Klaipėda...

A CITY THAT DELIVERS

Vytautas Grubliauskas, Mayor of Klaipėda

+370 46 396 001 meras@klaipeda.lt

Here are just a few examples of what has been accomplished and developed in enterprising Klaipėda. I assure you that each of the hundreds of large and small companies in Klaipėda successfully operates and develops!

Therefore, I invite you to contact me and my colleagues – we are prepared to meet you in person.

We have no doubt that Klaipėda can become your port of successful business development.

Eimantas Kiudulas, Director General of the Klaipėda Free Economic Zone

In Klaipėda one can accomplish a lot, but also surprisingly fast. We are uniquely placed to offer investors the possibility to move in and start operations the next day, and we can build a new plant in less than half a year. Together with the enterprising and creative community of our city, and hardworking and skilled employees, you can move mountains.

Povilas Bradulskis, head of Heidelbergcement Klaipėda

In Klaipėda, we have solved most of our cement production, supply and packaging problems.

KLAIPĖDA INSPIRES LITHUANIA!

We don’t claim that Klaipėda determined Lithuania’s benefits such membership in the EU, the eurozone or NATO. But we are convinced that Klaipėda’s businesses and community have significantly contributed to Lithuania’s high standings in these global rankings:

in the

16 41 th Index of th in the Global

Economic Freedom

Index (2017)(2017)

Competitiveness

in the Ease of Doing Business

16 th Index (2017) 2 nd

most attractive foreign investment market in Europe (Foreign Policy, 2013) and 35th in the world!

Who’s behind all this?

Our people! Our young, persistent, entrepreneurial, and ambitious people who were born in Klaipėda or came here from different parts of the world.

SUCCESSFUL KLAIPĖDA-BORN STARTUPS:

Packpin – a shipment tracking tool for e-shops, the first in Lithuania to take part in the prestigious Rockstart Accelerator. www.packpin.com

Whatagraph – a convenient tool for creating infographics. Samsung, Toshiba, Omnicom and Vogue are among its customers. www.whatagraph.com

Interactio – a mobile app and platform for simultaneous translation, already awarded at a UN competition. Practica Capital, one of Lithuania’s major venture capital funds, invested in the company in 2016. www.interactio.io

They not only deliver in terms of business... they also build communities and drive initiatives that unite all of Lithuania!

For example...

In the autumn of 2015, the Packpin team organised Hacker Games, the first hackathon in Klaipėda. It’s a 48-hours long workshop and competition for programmers, engineers, designers and other creative minds.

Today, the Hacker Games is Lithuania’s major hackathon series, that unites over 200 participants in Vilnius and Kaunas and returns to its native Klaipėda every autumn.

LITHUANIA’S MAJOR HACKATHON SERIES

PASSIONATE, CREATIVE AND AMBITIOUS DELIVERERS:

INSTITUTIONS OF

HIGHER EDUCATION offering study programmes in arts, social sciences, biomedicine, technology and maritime studies...

...including LCC International University – the country’s first private university, founded in 1991 by Americans and Canadians. Two thirds of its students and faculty come from abroad!

Kultūros fabrikas – a space, platform and community for creative people.

MAKERS OF LITHUANIA’S FIRST ELECTROBUS!

InNovaCamp, an annual technology and business festival for the country’s inventors, innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs.

How many of them are there?

KLAIPĖDA CITY RESIDENTS

KLAIPĖDA CITY AND DISTRICT RESIDENTS

KLAIPĖDA COUNTY RESIDENTS

And many more future Klaipėda residents. Will you be one of them?

Audriaus Mačiulio photo

Why do they deliver?

Because living and working in Klaipėda…

… is convenient:

A convenient airport connecting Klaipėda via direct flights to:

OSLOST PETERSBURG

GLASGOW

COPENHAGENPLQ

KLAIPĖDA

RIGA

RIX

KUN VNO

MOSCOW

MINSK

LONDON

WARSAW

KYIV

3 MORE AIRPORTS IN LESS THAN 300 KM:

All year

Summer season

Kaunas (KUN)

17 destinations

Vilnius (VNO)

49 destinations

Ryga (RIX)

89 destinations

A ROAD TRANSPORT HUB: YOU CAN REACH WARSAW, MINSK, RIGA AND KALININGRAD BY CAR IN ONLY 4 TO 8 HOURS.

CONNECTED BY RAIL WITH VILNIUS, MINSK, RIGA AND KALININGRAD; YOU CAN ALSO REACH WARSAW AND WESTERN EUROPE VIA KAUNAS AND ŠEŠTOKAI BY EUROPEAN GAUGE RAILWAY.

MODERN AND EFFICIENT CAR&BIKE SHARING SCHEMES ARE DEPLOYED IN KLAIPĖDA.

THE MOST NORTHERLY ICE-FREE BALTIC SEA PORT

HOME TO HUNDREDS OF LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT, REPAIR, CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER COMPANIES THAT CAN HELP MAKE YOUR BUSINESS MORE SUCCESSFUL AND EFFICIENT.

…and simply enjoyable:

Just a quick hop away...

CULINARY HERITAGE

Dozens of quality bars and restaurants

GOLF

SITES FOR CREATIVITY AND LEISURE

KITESURFING

SWIMMING POOLS, SPORTS AND WELLNESS CENTRES

The Curonian Spit, a place of natural beauty protected by UNESCO

In Klaipėda you will find no:

traffic jams,

price bubble,

tension...

...and so you are warmly welcome

in Klaipėda!

Arūno Zagurskio photo

Get in touch!

Klaipėda city municipality Liepų St. 11, LT-91502, Klaipėda

Tel. (+370 46) 410 053, fax: (+370 46) 410 047 e-mail: verslas@klaipeda.lt

Klaipėda Economic Development Agency Bangų St. 5A, LT-91250 Klaipėda Tel. (+370 46) 311 010 e-mail: info@kepa.lt